New York Street Food

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Another new food truck hit the NYC streets recently called the Munchie Mobile.  It’s owned and run by 3 NYU students, one of whom worked on two other food trucks that I’m sure you’ve heard of.

You know the truck is geared for students when there’s Red Bull on the drink menu, but you don’t have to be a college student to enjoy their food.

They have 1/3 lb burgers, half a dozen different grilled cheese sandwiches, 5 types of pancake dishes (all day) and a few other sandwiches that defy categorization – other than they are all great munchies.  We had a Kiss of the Dragon on our 1st visit.

The entire menu looked good, but now it was time to try a burger.  Their lunches  are too large to get more than one item, but luckily I met my brother at the truck, so I got The Magician for $8, he got a Bleu Dream for $7.50, and we split them.

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A new food truck hit the NYC streets last week, and we stopped by yesterday for a NYSF First Look.

The Munchie Mobile is owned and run by 3 NYU students, one of whom worked on two other food trucks that you know.   They have 1/3 lb burgers, half a dozen different grilled cheese sandwiches, 5 types of pancake dishes (all day) and a few other sandwiches that defy categorization – other than they are all great munchies for stoners.

Even though they looked great, I’ve had a lot of burgers and grilled cheese lately and wanted something different.  One of the specialty sandwiches caught my eye, Kiss Of The Dragon, which cost $9.

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We first saw the Rouge Tomate cart at last year’s Taste of the Parks event, where the NYC Parks Dept were showing off some of the new vendors in various NYC parks.  The Rouge Tomate cart served a chilled white gazpacho soup made with cucumbers, grapes, almonds and whole yogurt pureed into a small, delicious taste of 3 or 4 bites.

Rouge Tomate is a restaurant at 10 East 60th St, but their cart is on 5th Ave at 64th St, right outside the Central Park Arsenal and one of the Central Park Zoo entrances.

We heard the cart opened last week, and the menu was totally revamped.  Instead of grilled cheese, BLT’s and other sandwiches, they switched to burgers, and one in particular caught our eye – the Moroccan chicken burger for $8.

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I’m not usually a big fan of turkey burgers, but I’ve already tried most of the items on the Go Burger menu, and sometimes you just have to take one for the team.  Turkey burgers that I’ve had in the past were generally on the bland side and often fairly dry.  Hopefully Go Burger’s will be better.

The turkey burger was $6, one of the cheaper items on the Go Burger menu, so I added a slice of cheddar cheese for $1 and an order of Vidalia onion rings for $5.

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If you want a burger made with ingredients from high-quality, local NYC purveyors, Frites ‘N’ Meats is the place to go.  Their meat comes from DeBragga, the bread comes from Balthazar Bakery and the cheese comes from Murray’s.  Can’t get much better (or local) than that!

If you haven’t been to F’N'M before, when you order, they have a card where you check off the type of beef (Angus or Wagyu), bun (brioche, potato/onion or sesame seed), cheese (cheddar, blue, brie, goat or gruyere), free toppings (ketchup, mustard, pickles, raw onion, etc) and extra toppings (bacon, garlic guacamole, onion jam, etc).

Of course they have Belgian frites (with half a dozen dipping sauces to choose from), and they often have soup in the cold weather and homemade desserts.

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